Six Apart, providers of the TypePad, Live Journal and MT blogging platforms has received around $12 million in a third round of funding for use in new products, international expansion and network growth.

Accroding to Reuters, Barak Berkowitz, chief executive of SixApart said this brings the funding Six Apart has raised to roughly $23 million since being founded four years ago by Ben and Mena Trott.

Six Apart plans to use the financing in part to help launch a new service, code-named Comet.